Osaka Prefecture University

Faculty Member, College of Humanities and Scial Sciences

Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life

About

Masahiro Morioka, a professor of philosophy and ethics at Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, is considered by many to be one of the most influential thinkers in Japanese philosophy and sociology.

He was born in 1958 in Kochi prefecture, Japan. He is the director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life, Osaka Prefecture University, and the editor-in-chief of "Journal of Philosophy of Life" ( http://www.philosophyoflife.org/ ). He specializes in philosophy of life, life studies, bioethics, gender studies, and criticism of contemporary civilization.

Although his books and a majority of his papers have been published only in Japanese, you can read his English papers, essays, and some translated excerpts from his books on his website, http://www.lifestudies.org , or in the papers section of this webpage.

Current Positions:
Professor of philosophy and ethics at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan (2005-)

Previous Positions:
1998-2004 Professor of philosophy and ethics at the College of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
2001-2003 Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo
1997-1998 Associate Professor at Osaka Prefecture University
1988-1997 Research Associate at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan
1991 Visiting Scholar at Wesleyan University, U.S.A.
1988 Research Associate at the University of Tokyo

Award:
1994 Telecom Social Science Award (for Consciousness Communication)

Major Publications (Listed below are books only.)
2009 The 33rd Stone: A Philosophy for a wounded age (Shunju Sha, in Japanese)
2008 Lessons in Love for Herbivore Boys (Media Factory, in Japanese)
2005 The Insensitive Man: A Philosophical Essay on Male Sexuality (Chikuma Shobo, in Japanese)
2003 Painless Civilization: A Philosophical Critique of Desire (Transview Publications, in Japanese)
2001 Life Studies Approaches to Bioethics: A New Perspective on Brain Death, Feminism, and Disability (Keiso Shobo, in Japanese)
2001 Life Torn Apart (kinokopress.com, in Japanese)
1997 An Intellectual Method of Facing Oneself (PHP Publications, in Japanese)
1996 How to Live in a Post-religious Age (Hozokan, in Japanese)
1994 Reconsidering the View of Life (Chikuma Shobo, in Japanese)
1993 Consciousness Communication  (Chikuma Shobo, in Japanese)
1989 Brain Dead Person: Human-relationship-oriented Analysis of Brain-death (Tokyo Shoseki, in Japanese)
1988 An Invitation to the Study of Life (Keiso Shobo, in Japanese)

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